Line, twine, and cord



Nov. 27, 1934.y f

J. W. W, HOLDEN LINE, TWINE, AND CORD Filed Deo. 9;#1953 Patented Noem-,1934 1,982,304

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LINE, TWINE, AND CORD John W. W. Holden, Providence, R. I., assignor to Ashaway Line and Twine Manufacturing ComiainyAshaway, R. I., a corporation of Rhode s an Application December 9, 1933, Serial No. 701,634

1 Claim. (Cl. 28-1) My invention relates to fiexible string memplurality of series. One selected color envelops bers such as lines, twines, cords, and the like, the entire length of each section, and the numincluding fish lines used in casting or trolling. ber of such colors employed. the word colors It has heretofore been impossible, when castbeing herein understood to include shades, is

5 ing or trolling a fish line, to quickly and accuoptional and is limited only by the spectrum. 60.

rately vdetermine the length of the cast. The Purely for the purpose of illustration the numlength of the cast is not only of value when ber of colors are limited to five in the showing fishing, but is necessary for all casting contests. of Figure 2; and in order to avoid tedious repe- It is the 'purpose of my invention to provide tition, only a portion of a second series of colupon the line distinguishing indicia affording ored sections is included in said figure. Any 65 means for determining the linear distance covpreferred sequence of colors in a series of secered by the cast or the length of line released tions may be adopted. In this instance the in trolling. f sections 18, 18h, 18", 18d, and 18e are respectively With the above and other objects in part obred, blue, green, yellow, and black, this sequence l5 vious or in part pointed out hereinafter, in view constituting a single series of integral sections 70 my invention consists of a novel arrangement of different color. of lines, twines, cords and the like, more fully A fisherman with the knowledge of the length described in the detailed description following, of the color sections,v of his line may by glancing in conjunction with the accompanying drawing. at the color of the line adjacent the reel readily 20 In the drawing which forms a part of this determine or estimate the length of his cast. 75 specification, A `modified form of my invention consists in Figure 1 is a, side elevation 0f a, fishing rod defining the sectionsrby means"of"oneor more equipped with my unreeled fish line embodying series of bands of color upon a line of "neutral my invention, color, as shown in Figure 3. That is to say, each Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary side elesuccessive section 20a, Zub, 20, 20d, and 20e is 80 vation of the line shown in Figure 1,A and defined at its/'respective end by a single band 21, Figures 3, 4 and 5 are similar elevations of u group Of tWO bands 21", a group 0f three bands three modined forms of my invention, 21, a group of four bands 21d, and a group of It hasV been found advisable to provide twine, ve bands 21. A11 these bands may be of a cord, and the like, and particularly fishing line single color contrasting with the neutral color 854 so marked as to visually indicate its length as fof the line, or the several bandsof each group it is east, released, or recovered. To this end, may be of various colors contrasting with the I havefound the line with length indicia pref- C0101 0f the line. erably of uniform value, the indicia being in- A second modified form of my invention istegral with. the line in order to prevent inacshown in Figure 4 wherein the arrangement-'and 90 curacies and to permit rapid unreeling and reelcoloring of the section series 24a, 24h, 24C," 24d,

ing and 24e are the same as in Figure 2 except that Like reference characters represent like parts the sections are further successively subdivided throughout the views. by a plurality of equally interspaced bands, in

40 As illustrated, 10 represents the handle, 11 the this instance .two in number in each section, 95 body, 12 the lateral guides, 13 the tip guide, and namely 25, 25", 25C, 25d7 und 25e. These bands 14 the reel of any usual or preferred fishing rod. assist in more particularly dening the extent 0f A fish line 17 coiled as usual upon the reel is the cast. herein shown extended as in casting. The line A further modified form of my-invention shown throughout its length is provided with a series in Figure 5, defines each of the sections of the 100 of sections or areas 18a, 18", 18, 18d, and 18e of section series, namely 27, 2'7", 27, 27d, and 27e, equal length. The limits of the sections are by a longitudinally disposed thread 28 incordiagrammatically indicated in Figure 1 by a seporated in the material of the line extending ries of dots located at the points marked 19, but through its extent, and distinguished by the no actual dots are present upon the line. The series of equal color lengths 28a, 28h, 28C, 28d, 105 sections may be of any preferred uniform length, and 28e successively, said lengths corresponding say one or more yards. in extent with the sections which they respec- As shown in Figure 2 the sections 18 are detively define, and severally distinguished in color, fined by selected block colors arranged in series, in,y this instance in red, blue, green, yellow and or, when the length of the line so requires. a b/lack successively. 1in

and the like, and may be changed as required. within the spirit and the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claim.

I claim:-

A line, twine, or cord comprising a. series of sections of successively diierent base colors throughout their lengths. each section being divided at regular intervals by interspaced bands.

JOHN W. .W. HOLDEN. 

